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Ontogeny   /ɑntˈɑdʒəni/   Listen
Ontogeny

noun
1.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.  Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.






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"Ontogeny" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The ontogeny of the individual and the paleontology of the family both show that Mya came from a form with a very abbreviated siphon, and it seems evident that the long siphon of this genus was brought about by the effort to reach ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

... the temple, the indwelling Archeus, presiding over all the organic phenomena and directing all the dynamic powers therein, which was so profoundly present in the living Plato. Even Professor Haeckel, of the famous University of Jena, would not deny this, with all that his new terms "ontogeny" and "phylogeny" may imply. When potential life passed over into actual life in the individual Plato, it was not the pabulum that assimilated the man, but the man the pabulum. If this were not so, then the mere potentiality ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright



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